Korean Reflexive Pronoun Caki and Its Referent NPs Point of View

Abstract

Reflexivization m Korean by means of caki has been studied by a number of Korean linguists, the most representative ones among them being Chung-Min Lee (1973) and Wha-Chun Kim (1975). Rega rdless of whether any of their works could provide a satisfactory explanation about the phenomenon of Korean Refiexivization or not, one thing that has become increasingly clear is that, unlike English Refiexivization, Korean Refiexivization has no strict clause-bound constraint and its behavior and function when it occurs are extremely complicated: Due to the lack of the clause-bound constraint in Korean Refiexivization, it has been sometimes claimed that Refiexivization in Korean is almost equivalent to the combination of English Pronominalization and Refiexivization (cf.Chung-Min Lee 1973: 106).